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10-30-2008, 06:47 PM
Iraq holding thousands in secret prisons, opposition legislator says
By Frank Jordans, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA - An Iraqi opposition legislator says thousands of his countrymen are being mistreated in detention centres outside the official prison system.
Sunni legislator Mohammed al-Daini claims the government and paramilitary groups control 420 unofficial detention centres to hold people without legal justification.
Speaking through an interpreter, al-Daini told reporters in Geneva he had gained access to 13 such prisons and obtained government reports that proved the existence of a secret detention network.
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(http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/30/7256026-ap.html)
By Frank Jordans, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA - An Iraqi opposition legislator says thousands of his countrymen are being mistreated in detention centres outside the official prison system.
Sunni legislator Mohammed al-Daini claims the government and paramilitary groups control 420 unofficial detention centres to hold people without legal justification.
Speaking through an interpreter, al-Daini told reporters in Geneva he had gained access to 13 such prisons and obtained government reports that proved the existence of a secret detention network.
Story continued....
(http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/30/7256026-ap.html)